May 2011
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
9h 32m
English
Content preview from Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce SuccessBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
CHAPTER 9
DATE FILTERS: Successful Calendar Design Patterns
Provide Good Defaults PAGE 142
Show Only Valid Date Values PAGE 144
Minimize Clicks PAGE 146
Retain Customer-Entered Values PAGE 148
Consider if You Need Your Customers to Enter Dates PAGE 149
In contrast with the decimal Hindu-Arabic numeral system that was invented in India around 1,500 years ago, the Gregorian calendar has only been in use for approximately 428 years. As a consequence, humanity as a whole has had a bit less practice with calendars and dates than with numbers. Thus, date filters often cause even more usability issues than the numeric filters mentioned in the previous chapter, especially when they neglect basic design best practices. Dates are also among the most complex and time-consuming controls to manipulate: When asked to enter date values during usability tests, people often literally groan in pain. Yet many user interfaces stubbornly fail to safeguard customers from inadvertent errors and simply refuse to retain the calendar information customers so painstakingly provided. Sloppy or indifferent design of date filters can lead to unhappy customers. This chapter focuses specifically on date filters to show you how to design date filters that are as intuitive and pain free as possible.
PROVIDE GOOD DEFAULTS
For user interfaces, the initial impression is usually the most telling. Look at this government search interface from California's Department of Corporations Web site, pictured in Figure 9.1
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.